What a Cool App: screenie

Sometimes you stumble over an application that is really cool and makes your day. Of course when you tell your colleagues everyone knows it – except you, well…

Today I had this nice experience with a little tool called screenie. It helps to arrange screenshots or images in general nicely such as this example where I made boring Hermes screenshots look nice:

It does it with a perfect simple interface on which you drop three images out of a file manager. A handful of options allow you to adjust the image to your needs and there you are – your little screenshot composition simply looks amazing, after a few moments of work. Great software.

Btw, iit’s only around 500 lines of code and a couple of resource files. Amazing, must be based on a quite powerful toolkit utilized by a real smart guy…

If you also want to look nice, no idea how, but for screenshots and stuff quickly install screenie from the KDE::Community repository.

Is anybody supposed to actually recognize anything on such screenshots?
I hate them. They look kinda fancy, but serve no purpose besides that. I prefer plain, 2D screenshots on which I can really see the software.

I am working on Screenie2 which is way cooler and also fixes the above mentioned shadow issue. And like any other tools, Screenie allows you to shoot your own foot, i.e. you can create a very ugly shot with it. I recommend to use it only with the right image size and proper color balance, see e.g. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ariyahidayat/2545790007/sizes/m/.